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Originally Posted by Capsicum
According to Wikipedia " In all, of the 14,100 Acadians in the region, approximately 11,500 Acadians were deported.[5][d] A census of 1764 indicates that 2,600 Acadians remained in the colony, presumably having eluded capture.[7]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians |
If I ever I go back to university in retirement, one thing I would like to study more closely is why around the turn of the 20th century both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia had about 50,000 Acadian francophones each. And that at the turn of the 21st century, New Brunswick had 235,000 and Nova Scotia had less than 50,000.
I suspect the revanche des berceaux phenomenon probably played a part, but there are no doubt other factors as well... I sometimes wonder about this.